Jessica Senior Portraits

One of my sweet friends, Jessica is graduating high school,
which means I got to photograph her. We went to this battle ground in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and the leaves were all of the colors of fall. 

I'm pretty sure it's the best season to photograph.

Here's a few from the shoot. 

Isn't she a doll?

Greenhouse Adventure

I love, love, love greenhouses. I've always loved flowers- picking them, smelling them, arranging them in pretty bouquets. A greenhouse is like a magical flower house. 

The way the light cascades through the tarp creates such beauty. I plan on getting married in a greenhouse. Really. 

Here's a few photos from my visit to my local nursery.

  

Market Square Farmers' Market

I've been home from school for about a month now, 

and it's been so wonderful to be around family and friends that I don't get to see often when I'm away during the school year. Today we went downtown to check out the farmers' market. 

It's one of my favorite places to just walk around and explore all the booths. 

Documentary Project: Completed

So I FINALLY finished my latest documentary project! 

I am so proud of how it evolved and became what it is. It started as an idea to photograph different local small farms to show how they grow their food for consumption as well as for a living. 

But it turned into a very personal one on one story about a specific family and the processes they go through all year round. 

Here's my artist statement about the photographs:

My desire is to present how one family chooses to grow their own garden, in order to retain the integrity of their food. As a culture, we have become so accustomed to eating whatever the industry puts before us; we don't question where it comes from or how it's produced. Still, there are those who choose to live counter to the ever-increasing quick and easy TV dinner lifestyle. I documented a family who makes their living from the food they harvest. They hold in high integrity the process of taking a seed, planting it, and nurturing it to be only what it's mean to be, and nothing else. They style of documentary photography is such a rewarding process for me, because it truly displays what it seen.

Documentary Project

I'm in the process of working on a documentary portfolio centered around small farms and healthy living. I'm very interested in finding out why people choose to grow their own food and how it affects them in their everyday life experiences. For a few years now my family has grown our own garden so that we would have access to our own fruits and vegetables. It's true that home grown food tastes so much better than store bought! But there are many more benefits that I hope to find out for myself in the process. Here's just a taste (pun intended) of the work I've done thus far. 

I hope you enjoy them. Check back in soon to see what's next!